World through the aperture

A five-day-old baby Rothschild giraffe is seen with her mother at the zoo in Prague, the Czech Republic, on January 29, 2019. (Photo by AFP)

A selection of photos shot recently from around the world:

A pedestrian stops to take a photo by Chicago River, as a bitter cold phenomenon called the polar vortex descends on much of the central and eastern United States, in Chicago, Illinois, the US, on January 29, 2019. (Photo by Reuters)A duck stands on ice over a partially-frozen lake at a park in Beijing, China, on January 28, 2019. (Photo by AFP)Participants dressed as Vikings pose on the Viking longboat that will be set alight in Lerwick, Shetland Islands, Scotland, on January 29, 2019, before the Up Helly Aa festival later in the day. (Photo by AFP)Men work on covering up a sculpture under construction with a tarpaulin with an image of Peppa Pig ahead of the upcoming Chinese Lunar New Year of the Pig, in Jiaxing, Zhejiang Province, China, on January 29, 2019. (Photo by Reuters)An Indian farmer walks in his mustard field on the outskirts of Jalandhar, India, on January 28, 2019. (Photo by AFP)An Indian man feeds migratory seagulls at Narmada River early in the morning in Jabalpur, in the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh, on January 29, 2019. (Photo by AFP)Two men look at their destroyed car two days after the passage of a tornado in Havana, Cuba, on January 29, 2019. (Photo by AFP)Bangladeshi laborers unload a heavy steel plate in a dockyard beside the Buriganga River in Dhaka, Bangladesh, on January 29, 2019. (Photo by AFP)Pedestrians brave the cold to go for a walk on the Stone Arch Bridge in Minneapolis, Minnesota, the US, on January 29, 2019. (Photo by AFP)Cyclists ride over a bridge in the center of Amsterdam, the Netherlands, on January 29, 2019. (Photo by Reuters)People use their smartphones on the street in Tokyo, Japan, on January 30, 2019. (Photo by Reuters)